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Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by Analemma_ on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:02PM (#49190251)
People lost their shit when Spectre mitigations added 20% overhead to kernel calls though. Why wouldn't they do the same for microkernel overhead?
Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by floxy on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:14PM (#49191205)
If people really cared about performance, we'd be doing something other than the bloated way we have been doing things.

https://winworldpc.com/product/qnx/144mb-demo

Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by pjmlp on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:29AM (#49193645)
The same people are perfectly fine with Electron crap all over the place, they don't really care about overhead.
Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by lanstin on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:16PM (#49200318)
Not true in a data center - 20% less work for same CPU is like 25% more cores needed for any applications where the scaling is driven by CPU utilization. That is $ - and people have made things so far from efficient many medium size companies have 100k cores to pay for.
Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 by floxy on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:19PM (#49201906)
I'm having a hard time believing that data centers are chomping at the bit to use the Hurd.